You can get plastic tubing designed for use as this kind of hoop, for €1.50 per tube. They are 2m20 long, giving 10cm to stick in the ground, and 2 metres to stretch the netting over. This fits perfectly with my carefully planned 1m50 wide raised bed. I decided to push some wooden dowel spikes into the ends of the tubes, to help them stick into the ground.
The dowels fit perfectly, and I anchored them in place with some waterproof glue and a small screw that will also act as a hook for the netting.
Here are the hoops and netting in place, although the netting is hard to see in this photo. HA! Blackbirds!! Sort that out! Actually I have left some strawberries outside of the netting for them. I rather like having birds in the garden.
As a final tweek, I might get some metal hooks to pin the netting down at the edges between the hoops.
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Might get the hooks? Think they're essential, no?
At the moment the screws/hooks on the loops are holding the netting reasonably firmly against the soil. To get under the net the birds would have to dig a bit, and I'm not sure how capable of this they would be. In any case, I think I'll go for the pegs to hold the netting down, since they're cheap and effective.
I don't think I can get these here but I'll show this to Danilo and see what he can make for me.
Thank you.
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